[amsat-bb] Re: ""you may as well use Skype..."

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:36 -0600, Jim Shorney wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:03:59 +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> 
> >It doesn't in my case.  I have *no interest at all* in operating
> >satellites that require a complex fixed station with computer tracking
> >and tuning.  None.  Doesn't interest me one bit.
> 
> Require? Hah. I used to run the RS birds with a TR-7, IC-251A, and a TA-33 + 17
> el Cushcraft with an old CDE rotor. No computer control, fixed at 90 degrees
> elevation. What fun it was!
> 
> 73
> 
> -Jim

You're so far south you can get away with that, though ;-)

Gordon MM0YEQ